The other day my phone started acting a bit odd as it is no longer getting locked when the screen is turned off. Normally it would lock itself after 30 minutes if I leave it untouched, and immediately if I click on the power button. Now when I turn the screen off it doesn't lock itself. Sometimes when I exit the camera or another app the phone locks itself. Also, the screen comes on at random times.
I haven't installed any new apps lately and have experienced this on Monxified and iHacker roms, so it doesn't appear to be rom specific. Is there any way to check what could be causing the non-locking and random screen on issues?
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When I use wireless tether, and my phone sleeps, it will run fine. Then after 10 minutes or so, the connection will get buggy and stop running, then when I try to get my phone up again, the touch screen is unresponsive. I've worked around this by holding the power button, which brings up the power down menu even on the lock screen, and I select reboot, because for some reason my touch screen works when the menu pops up. Then I hit cancel, then the touch screen works again. However, now it continues to stay unresponsive even after I hold the power button and the menu comes up.
So, anyone have this problem before? Why would my tethering be cutting out at random times? And why won't my touch screen work when I'm running tether, after waking it from sleep?
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I seem to have solved it by turning off my over clocking profiles. I assumed it might have been the change in processor speeds that could be junking things up. I also turned of Access Control, and things seem faster. Will keep this updated if problems arise again.
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Still having both problems.
I have observed this to a lesser extent as well. Try turning off the screen for a few seconds. Typically when I have some sort of flakey screen behavior turning the screen off seems to resolve it. I think at least some of the touch screen issues are related to the panel getting a little too hot, and I think the tethering applications can certainly get the phone running warm. HTH.
I can let it sit there for a few minutes, and the screen will remain unresponsive.
Very odd...
My screen won't timeout anymore, unless I manually press the power button. It doesn't matter whether the phone is plugged in or not, and it isn't dependent on the screen I am on either. The screen just stays on forever.
Is there a way I can see if a certain program is preventing the screen from sleeping? Has anyone encountered this type of thing before?
Thanks!
yakkamut said:
Very odd...
My screen won't timeout anymore, unless I manually press the power button. It doesn't matter whether the phone is plugged in or not, and it isn't dependent on the screen I am on either. The screen just stays on forever.
Is there a way I can see if a certain program is preventing the screen from sleeping? Has anyone encountered this type of thing before?
Thanks!
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Did you check the screen time out settings, maybe you got it at 30mins ?
Yeah, it's set to 30 seconds. It must be some program that tells my phone not to sleep?
Even more odd...
It fixed itself!
Rebooting the phone for the last couple days had no effect on the timeout issue I was having, but doing it this afternoon somehow resolved the issue.
Add this to the list of idiosyncrasies that my SGS has.
I'm having this annoying problem with my SGS (JPY) at the moment. Sometimes it'll go to sleep and turn off the screen by itself, but 9 times out of 10 I have to manually turn it off with the power button.
Has anyone else experienced this with JPY? I'm reluctant to wipe and start again, but it's really starting to piss me off now...
might be an old topic, but i am experiencing this right now
i just installed gingerreal guerilla version yesterday and it works fine
however when i connected my phone to usb for charging this morning, it wont turn off the screen unless i do it manually by pressing the power button
weird thing is as far as i remember there's a setting on USB debug mode to turn off the screen when connected to usb. i think it might be related to the rom or is it always like that on gingerbread? i assume that is the root cause,
although i couldn't post the issue directly on the gingerreal thread due to minimum post count.
I got this phone (Xperia X1A) today and when it froze, I pulled the battery out for 30 seconds, and put it back in. After it turned on and everything loaded, the screen was flickering and I could faintly see it was flickering the old screen from when it froze.
If you don't get what I mean, say for example, I had a clock app open, it freezes, so I take the battery out and do a restart. When the phone starts up and loads everything, I can see it flickering the clock app really faintly from the point when it froze.
Anyone had a problem like this before, because when I googled this I didn't get any information on this problem happening.
EDIT: *Facepalm*, posted in the wrong section. Could a mod please move this to Q & A. Sorry 'bout that.
Next time your phone freezes try to use the reset button at the back of the phone (beneath the battery cover).
The screen of my Xperia X1 sometimes flickers too after the phone switched off because of an empty battery. But it stops after 30 seconds or something. It does not happen when I use the reset button or switch the phone off using the power button.
Thank you. I just only figured out where the reset button was on this thing today. It doesn't flicker when I do that.
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had something odd happen to my phone on the weekend. I pressed the power button (to wake it up) so I could quickly see the time and temp and I put it down, came back to it 3 hours later and the screen was still on.... (on the locked screen)
I unlocked it and locked it again and it wouldn't turn off the screen without me hitting the power button to do it
This happened last night as well and I noticed that it dimed the screen and stayed on when sometimes I see it dim then turn off a second later. Rebooting it makes it go back to the usual turning off after 10 or so seconds
I posted this on the aussie Whirlpool forms and someone else has said they have seen the same thing happen
sorry should have put in that I am on the 4.2.2 update on the Australian unbranded handset
chippyaus said:
had something odd happen to my phone on the weekend. I pressed the power button (to wake it up) so I could quickly see the time and temp and I put it down, came back to it 3 hours later and the screen was still on.... (on the locked screen)
I unlocked it and locked it again and it wouldn't turn off the screen without me hitting the power button to do it
This happened last night as well and I noticed that it dimed the screen and stayed on when sometimes I see it dim then turn off a second later. Rebooting it makes it go back to the usual turning off after 10 or so seconds
I posted this on the aussie Whirlpool forms and someone else has said they have seen the same thing happen
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Try going to Settings -> Display -> Sleep and then selecting your preference, that solved it for me. It seems that sometimes this setting doesnt get recognized, so you have to select it again.
Hello all,
I got this phone about a month and a half ago, and since I got it I've noticed a lot of freezing and crashing (more so after the 5.1 update).
Some examples:
-I try unlocking the phone from active display and the screen goes black. The only way to get out of it is to hold the power button to restart.
-Sometimes the phone freezes on the lock screen randomly, and when I pick up the phone to look at it, the time is wrong and I can't physically unlock the phone, only turn the screen on and off, leading to me having to hold the power button down to shut off and restart.
-When on some apps, like twitter for example, the phone freezes, and I cannot do anything except turn off the screen by pressing the power button. When I try waking the phone, it stays black or sometimes theres a flash of the screen I was on before, and then it goes black again. Only thing I can do here is hold the power button down until "Power Off" shows up on the screen, and I press that to shut the phone off.
Today I cleared the cache, and since then the phone has froze once, causing me to do a hard reset. What should I try next? Any idea what the problem could be?
Thank you for the help.
I have pretty much the exact same thing going on. It started last night... I first noticed I had some charging issues where the phone wasn't charging very quickly after the battery died (after a day of heavy use). I let it sit for awhile, then it booted up, and it showed the motorola splash screen. It gets all the way to the lock screen, although I'm unable to unlock the phone. The screen goes dark. It appears to still be getting texts and the like- although this screen blackness issue makes it so I can't unlock the phone. The one thing I can do is hold down the power button and turn it off. I've tried loading fastboot and doing a factory reset, although nothing appears to happen and it boots the same way. The other thing about it is that it appears to be running hot- way hot. Any ideas? I'm running stock rom, Verizon network, just updated to 5.1 when it came out last week.